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Earth Hour 2023 rallies the world

March, 2023
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The lighting of the Brandenburg Gate is still switched on shortly before the start of the "Earth Hour" campaign.

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A woman wearing a red gown poses in front of the illuminated Moscow Kremlin, Russia, 25 March 2023. The kremlin decided not participate in the Earth Hour action this year.

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REUTERS

A view shows Humayun's Tomb after the lights were turned off for Earth Hour in New Delhi, India. March 25, 2023.

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AP

People use candles to create the number 60, representing the minutes in an hour, as they mark Earth Hour in La Paz, Bolivia, Saturday, March 25, 2023.

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AP

The Christ the Redeemer statue stands after the lights that illuminate it were turned off to observe an hour of voluntary darkness for the global "Earth Hour" campaign in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, March 25, 2023.

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AFP

Pedestrians walk next to the Colosseum, normally lighted prior to a switch off as part of the Earth Hour initiative, in Rome on March 25, 2023.

AFP
AFP

This picture shows the Sydney Opera House with its lights switched off during the Earth Hour environmental campaign in Sydney on March 25, 2023.

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REUTERS

A view of the ancient Parthenon temple atop the Acropolis hill during Earth Hour in Athens, Greece, March 25, 2023.

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EPA

A view of the illuminated Saint Basil Cathedral at the Red Square in Moscow, Russia, 25 March 2023.

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REUTERS

A view of the Temple of Dawn after lights were turned off for Earth Hour, in Bangkok, Thailand, 25 March 2023.

Marine traffic of a busy harbour. Nautical vessels cruising close to each other at different directions in the port. Getty Images
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A look at global maritime routes through the lens of US-China interests

The security of global maritime routes is high on national security agendas, particularly those of the US and China, as both powers seek control over…

Alice Gower 26 March , 2023
Opinion

Does a diplomatic thaw herald a new Iran?

In the wake of a Chinese-brokered agreement to restore diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran,…

Majed Kayali 26 March , 2023
Opinion

From the Black Sea to Syria, Russian provocation of US troops intensifies

The recent spike in aggressive behaviour from the Russian Air Force over Syria, coupled with the collision between a Russian fighter jet and a US…

Haid Haid 25 March , 2023
Veteran Lebanese poet describes the decay of in-person interaction and the city amid the rise of technology. Oriana Fenwick
Culture & Social Affairs

Paul Chaoul: Humans are drifting toward a state of emptiness

Beirut: Paul Chaoul is plentiful, diverse, full of ideas, and problematic. He is experimental in the eyes of classicism, but a modernist in its…

Shadi Alaa Aldin 24 March , 2023
Russian President Vladimir Putin watches a naval exercise from the Marshal Ustinov missile cruiser in the Black Sea on January 09, 2020. Getty Images
Politics

Will China collaborate with Russia in the Arctic?

Against the backdrop of protracted hostilities in Ukraine, the Kremlin is trying to show that its failure to secure a quick win over Kyiv will not…

Anton Mardasov 24 March , 2023
Opinion

'Trends' pose grave challenge to free thought

Does anyone remember Sam Bankman-Fried?A few months ago, the young man with shaggy hair, who had been described, among other virtues, as the 'genius…

Houssam Itani 24 March , 2023
Chinese proposal
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Chinese proposal

Fares Garabet 24 March , 2023
Not just a ‘pipe’ dream, Morocco-Nigeria gas line set to transform Africa Diana Estefanía Rubio
Business & Economy

Not just a ‘pipe’ dream, Morocco-Nigeria gas line set to transform Africa

Rabat: Why is the world suddenly courting Africa? Is this the start of a real strategic shift of interests? Does Africa hold the key to solving the…

Mohamed Sharki 24 March , 2023
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) chairman Yasser Arafat attends a ceremony marking the end of a military training, August 17, 1970 Getty Images
Politics

Fatah’s rich legacy sullied by its failures

Fifty-eight years after its launch on 1 January 1965, the Palestinian Fatah movement insists on commemorating this event, although it is not the same…

Majed Kayali 23 March , 2023
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